According to the researchers, they were approx­i­mately 10 years older than their vic­tims and were former vic­tims of sex traf­ficking who, instead of escaping, decided to go into the same busi­ness. They had first­hand knowl­edge of what that life meant. These women had been threat­ened, abused, demeaned, iso­lated, con­fined, demor­al­ized, med­ically neglected, drugged, dom­i­nated, con­trolled and sub­se­quently sur­vived to become the next gen­er­a­tion of traffickers.

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